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she says she disagrees with mr. romney. mark meadows, running for congress as a republican in north carolina, says that he is different from mitt romney. lamontagne, running in new hampshire, promising not to be a partisan -- is promising not to be a partisan governor in the style of mr. romney and his 47% speech. but here's maybe the biggest panic button that there is on the republican side right now. it's from the "huffington post" today. a republican operative working on congressional races, quote, warned that in key swing states, mitt romney's support and internal polling is well below that of republican candidates in districts where the presidential nominee needs to get big support to have a chance at winning. this is the quote from the republican operative. "he is just well under all of our other guys," this republican said, "i'm very concerned." think about what that means for a second. what they're talking about here is key districts in key swing states. ones where mitt romney really needs to win big in order to win
she says she disagrees with mr. romney. mark meadows, running for congress as a republican in north carolina, says that he is different from mitt romney. lamontagne, running in new hampshire, promising not to be a partisan -- is promising not to be a partisan governor in the style of mr. romney and his 47% speech. but here's maybe the biggest panic button that there is on the republican side right now. it's from the "huffington post" today. a republican operative working on...
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mr. romney: thank you. mark: how are the six people coming here, why are they coming here to talk to this group? mr. romney: there are a couple hundred people who are very supportive of my campaign. there are some folks that were with other campaigns as well and they want to share their message and to get support. from my standpoint, this is a chance to cheer different people's visions for the future. as well as understand some of the lessons of leadership we could learn from. mr. romney: you have become a learned student of the nomination process. how do you think the current jockeying is going. mr. romney: it is too early to make any real assessments of who is going to come out on top. even a discussion of who are the front runners is like my goodness, as you look at the polls, the gaps between the candidates are smaller than the margin of error of the pollster. we really don't know who is going to emerge. it is a starting process. you have to look and say there are some who have done a better job at rais
mr. romney: thank you. mark: how are the six people coming here, why are they coming here to talk to this group? mr. romney: there are a couple hundred people who are very supportive of my campaign. there are some folks that were with other campaigns as well and they want to share their message and to get support. from my standpoint, this is a chance to cheer different people's visions for the future. as well as understand some of the lessons of leadership we could learn from. mr. romney: you...
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this is mr. romney's new hello babies add. the phrase hello babies was coined by one cat.com, but it's less awkward language than the language which this ad actually starts. >> dear daughter, welcome to america. your share of obama's debt is $50,000 and it grows every day. welcome daughter. >> to this obama hell scape. don't with you wish you could go back to where you came from. >> is she a foreign baby? maybe she did a trimester abroad? hello, foreign babies. welcome to america. vote for mitt romney? the romney campaign is in serious trouble. but you do what you've got to do in these situations you've got to put one foot in front of the other and they have decided the way they're going to get out of these problems and the way they're going to take these steps is going to be baby steps. welcome to america? seriously, who's making the decisions in this campaign right now. >>> okay. best new thing in the world today. specifically, it is the best new thing in mitt romney's world today. it was a chance for him to get on televisio
this is mr. romney's new hello babies add. the phrase hello babies was coined by one cat.com, but it's less awkward language than the language which this ad actually starts. >> dear daughter, welcome to america. your share of obama's debt is $50,000 and it grows every day. welcome daughter. >> to this obama hell scape. don't with you wish you could go back to where you came from. >> is she a foreign baby? maybe she did a trimester abroad? hello, foreign babies. welcome to...
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mr. romney: these are my children. [laughter] >> governor romney, given meddling in our election by russia, do you think the president has taken that seriously enough? mr. romney: i pointed out in the 20 oh -- the 20 12 election that russia is a geopolitical adversary. they obviously have tried to influence elections. i agree with the president a did not determine the outcome here in our nation anyway, but what they've done is unacceptable. i'm glad that they are being held accountable, and believe without question that russians are trying to interfere with the principles of elected democracy and that has got to end. >> how would you deal with that legislatively? >> specifically what you're talking about? mr. romney: look at the last year, when there have been things i disagree with, i have pointed that out. people know where i stand. they know i have been critical, whether it is something he has said or done. his comments at charlottesville were of a bad nature in that is why i said what i did. interestingly, i expect
mr. romney: these are my children. [laughter] >> governor romney, given meddling in our election by russia, do you think the president has taken that seriously enough? mr. romney: i pointed out in the 20 oh -- the 20 12 election that russia is a geopolitical adversary. they obviously have tried to influence elections. i agree with the president a did not determine the outcome here in our nation anyway, but what they've done is unacceptable. i'm glad that they are being held accountable,...
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mr. romney: hi, mary. question: governor romney, you have stated that if you're elected president, you would plan to reduce the tax rates for all the tax brackets and that you would work with the congress to eliminate some deductions in order to make up for the loss in revenue. concerning the -- these various deductions, the mortgage deductions, the charitable deductions, the child tax credit and also the -- oh, what's that other credit? i forgot. pres. obama: you're doing great. question: oh, i remember. the education credits, which are important to me, because i have children in college. what would be your position on those things, which are important to the middle class? mr. romney: thank you very much. and let me tell you, you're absolutely right about part of that, which is i want to bring the rates down, i want to simplify the tax code, and i want to get middle-income taxpayers to have lower taxes. and the reason i want middle-income taxpayers to have lower taxes is because middle-income taxpayers ha
mr. romney: hi, mary. question: governor romney, you have stated that if you're elected president, you would plan to reduce the tax rates for all the tax brackets and that you would work with the congress to eliminate some deductions in order to make up for the loss in revenue. concerning the -- these various deductions, the mortgage deductions, the charitable deductions, the child tax credit and also the -- oh, what's that other credit? i forgot. pres. obama: you're doing great. question: oh,...
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this is mr. romney could be baby ad. it was first coined -- hello davies is less awkward than the real language the that it actually starts with. >> welcome to america. that is what obama's policies have done. >> welcome, and daughter, to this obama healthy. don't you wish you could go back to where you came from? why does she need to be unwelcome to america? -ish e-4 in baby? congratulations! maybe she did a trimester abroad. hello foreign babies. welcome to america. vote for matt ronny? they are in serious trouble, but you do what you have to do. put one foot in front of the other. they have very quietly decided that the way they will get out is by taking these steps. their steps will be baby steps. welcome to america? seriously, who is making the decisions in the campaign right now? whoa. right? get. out. exactly! really?! [ mom ] what? shut the front door. right? woop-woop! franklin delano! [ male announcer ] there's oreo creme under that fudge! oreo fudge cremes. now in two new flavors. to compete on the global stag
this is mr. romney could be baby ad. it was first coined -- hello davies is less awkward than the real language the that it actually starts with. >> welcome to america. that is what obama's policies have done. >> welcome, and daughter, to this obama healthy. don't you wish you could go back to where you came from? why does she need to be unwelcome to america? -ish e-4 in baby? congratulations! maybe she did a trimester abroad. hello foreign babies. welcome to america. vote for matt...
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mr. romney said we shouldn't have left iraq. that we would be better if american troops were still there. i wonder if you feel like there is any sort of foreign policy or military foreign consensus about what we should have learned from iraq, about what we won't do as a country because of what we learned from the iraq war. >> i think there should be a consensus because i think a lot of the lessons are very clear. i think the first bush administration rushed into war based on intelligence that turned out to be wrong, to go after weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist and to end up occupying a country without having thought through a strategy, without having a plan, and finding -- got ourselves deeper into the middle of an insurgency campaign that cost us thousands of lives and put america's blood and treasure on the line for a cause that was really in the end questionable. i think when president obama came in, he was very clear that he wanted to responsibly end that war. and he did that. the discussion here, the question o
mr. romney said we shouldn't have left iraq. that we would be better if american troops were still there. i wonder if you feel like there is any sort of foreign policy or military foreign consensus about what we should have learned from iraq, about what we won't do as a country because of what we learned from the iraq war. >> i think there should be a consensus because i think a lot of the lessons are very clear. i think the first bush administration rushed into war based on intelligence...
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mr. romney: that is a fair question. i remind people that i had the occasion of attending college here for three years and i also came back for the olympics, which was a marvelous experience. after our campaign and my private sector work was finished, we decided to make this our home. we moved here full-time in 2014. it is about 10 years that utah has been our home. our first son was born in this town. we love it here, we love the people here and have had great experiences here. i think the people of utah know that i am a utah person at heart. i love the state i got to live in and serving as governor, that it is really funny. when i go to other parts of the country, and when i ran for president, people all assumed i was from utah. out here, some people wonder. >> do you support daca? mr. romney: the president has indicated he is looking for a path to citizenship for the dreamers. i was more conservative than that when i ran for president, i opposed the dream act. president obama put in place his provisions. i think once
mr. romney: that is a fair question. i remind people that i had the occasion of attending college here for three years and i also came back for the olympics, which was a marvelous experience. after our campaign and my private sector work was finished, we decided to make this our home. we moved here full-time in 2014. it is about 10 years that utah has been our home. our first son was born in this town. we love it here, we love the people here and have had great experiences here. i think the...
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mr. romney: [laughter] >> [laughter] mr. romney: you know, when i was a young guy, i was 15 or 16 when my dad decided to run for governor of the state of michigan. and he was convinced that there was too much economic power in the hands of a few corporations and in the hands of labor unions. and he thought he had to get in to make a difference. and he, he jumped in. but he you know, and i was , involved in his campaigns and asked him about politics, and he said, mitt, don't get involved in politics unless you're independent financially and your kids are raised. and i asked him, why is that? he said, well, financially if you have to win elections to pay your mortgage, it may cause you to take votes and to say things that are not right, that don't conform to your principles. and with regards to your kids, if you win an election, your kids will think they're something special, and they're not. >> [laughter] mr. romney: and so, and i never imagined, by the way, that -- i had five boys, they'd all be raised, and that i'd become i
mr. romney: [laughter] >> [laughter] mr. romney: you know, when i was a young guy, i was 15 or 16 when my dad decided to run for governor of the state of michigan. and he was convinced that there was too much economic power in the hands of a few corporations and in the hands of labor unions. and he thought he had to get in to make a difference. and he, he jumped in. but he you know, and i was , involved in his campaigns and asked him about politics, and he said, mitt, don't get involved...
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mr. romney said that wasn't the case, but he got caught. after he got caught, he admitted, yeah, he had been filing as a utah resident, but he was retroactively, now that he was running for governor, he was going back a few years and was going to change that retro actively, but it was a huge mess. i mean mr. romney had told a local newspaper reporter in utah that he had declared utah his primary residence for tax purposes. he had claimed a giant permanent resident of utah tax credit on his big utah house out there. he saved $54,000 in taxes by doing that. he had signed multiple years of tax returns as a part-time only or nonresident of massachusetts. but all of that, he said, how are you going to explain doing all that? he said it was all other people's mistakes. the reporter he talked to in 2000 who noted that mr. romney had declared his utah home his primary residence, well, mr. romney said that must have been a mistake on the reporter's part. mr. romney told the massachusetts state ballot commission, quote, i have met with that reporter
mr. romney said that wasn't the case, but he got caught. after he got caught, he admitted, yeah, he had been filing as a utah resident, but he was retroactively, now that he was running for governor, he was going back a few years and was going to change that retro actively, but it was a huge mess. i mean mr. romney had told a local newspaper reporter in utah that he had declared utah his primary residence for tax purposes. he had claimed a giant permanent resident of utah tax credit on his big...
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after his convention, you will recall that mr. romney went on vacation. mr. romney, even after he had such a big win at the first presidential debate, he did not have any big, morning after the debate rallies or anything. he went and did an event that was off his public schedule, but nobody knew for sure he would be anywhere, and there wasn't a big crowd of people around him while he was rallying the troops to his big win. it was a very quiet morning. and then again today, after the second presidential debate, mr. romney did no public events in the morning. i mean, i don't know if it means anything important, but it is an unusual choice for this candidate that no other modern candidate has done. and mr. romney, it wasn't just a fluke. he keeps doing it after big events. that said, mr. romney did not take the whole day off today. this afternoon, he did a rally in virginia and then he stayed in virginia for the day to do another virginia rally tonight. on the democratic side, vice president joe biden did an early afternoon rally in greeley, colorado, today. he
after his convention, you will recall that mr. romney went on vacation. mr. romney, even after he had such a big win at the first presidential debate, he did not have any big, morning after the debate rallies or anything. he went and did an event that was off his public schedule, but nobody knew for sure he would be anywhere, and there wasn't a big crowd of people around him while he was rallying the troops to his big win. it was a very quiet morning. and then again today, after the second...
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romney next month. and as mr. romney returns from this trip, it is announced that former vice president dick cheney will not be going to the convention either. mr. cheney telling abc news he plans to go fishing instead. so the olympics, not just the trip, but the metaphor, is apt here. this is a passing of the torch. the republican party this week is insuring that the existing torch holders are in fact going to hand it over. but the guy they're trying to hand it over to at this point in his campaign seems more apt to light himself metaphorically on fire with that torch than to run it anywhere. joining us now is john harwood, cnbc's chief washington correspondent and a political reporter for "the new york times". thank you for your time. nice to see you. >> hi, ms. leader. >> you can call me anything. after five days of vacation at this point, i'm impervious to insult. john, how are republicans in d.c. reacting to this -- to the romney overseas trip? is it accomplishing the goals the campaign had for it? >> not ent
romney next month. and as mr. romney returns from this trip, it is announced that former vice president dick cheney will not be going to the convention either. mr. cheney telling abc news he plans to go fishing instead. so the olympics, not just the trip, but the metaphor, is apt here. this is a passing of the torch. the republican party this week is insuring that the existing torch holders are in fact going to hand it over. but the guy they're trying to hand it over to at this point in his...
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mr. romney made those remarks at about 2:00 in the afternoon on may 3rd. and they drew an almost immediate rebuke from even staunch conservatives, like, for example, bill kristol, that very same afternoon. >> i mean, i'm happy to be critical of the obama administration, as anyone is, but i think this is an awfully fast-moving story, and if i was advising governor romney, i would say, you don't need to get in the middle of this story. to inject yourself in the middle of it, when there were all kinds of negotiations going on, and a fast-moving story, i think it's foolish. there's no reason to inject yourself in and say it's a day of shame for the obama administration. hillary clinton's waking up right now. let's see if she can pull this off in the next 12 hours or not. >> turns out secretary clinton was able to pull it off. just eight hours after mitt romney declared a day of shame for the obama administration, u.s. officials who were working on the problem at the time announced that they had reached an agreement with china that would allow chen to travel to
mr. romney made those remarks at about 2:00 in the afternoon on may 3rd. and they drew an almost immediate rebuke from even staunch conservatives, like, for example, bill kristol, that very same afternoon. >> i mean, i'm happy to be critical of the obama administration, as anyone is, but i think this is an awfully fast-moving story, and if i was advising governor romney, i would say, you don't need to get in the middle of this story. to inject yourself in the middle of it, when there were...
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mr ricketts. | mr romney... so they are just mr romney... so they are 'ust callin: mr romney... so they are 'ust calling the fi mr romney... so they are 'ust calling the names i mr romney... so they are 'ust calling the names of i mr romney... so they are just l calling the names of lawmakers who are about to vote. as i said, they need 60 votes for this bill to pass the senate, and the hard deadline isjust around the corner, monday, the 5th ofjune, when the treasury secretary has warned of the us could run out of money to pay all of its bills. so we will continue to monitor the situation in washington, and of course we have all our colleagues in the us keeping you up—to—date on bbc news, do stay tuned. for now, thank you so much for watching. sally has been an hgv driver forjust over a year. she only drives in the day, but says finding somewhere decent and safe to park is difficult. some have got good parking and others haven't. so in the day it's not so bad. but i know that i wouldn't feel safe at night. and you know, i have done one night out alongside my husband and we h
mr ricketts. | mr romney... so they are just mr romney... so they are 'ust callin: mr romney... so they are 'ust calling the fi mr romney... so they are 'ust calling the names i mr romney... so they are 'ust calling the names of i mr romney... so they are just l calling the names of lawmakers who are about to vote. as i said, they need 60 votes for this bill to pass the senate, and the hard deadline isjust around the corner, monday, the 5th ofjune, when the treasury secretary has warned of the...
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mr. romney: in e-mail. i will be at walker point this summer and we will have lunch together with jeff and the family. mark: one question about the democratic side. the clintons are frustrated. the coverage of their finances is unfair and inaccurate. you dealt with a lot of scrutiny of your personal finances. without getting in the particulars do you have any empathy for them in terms of the unrelenting scrutiny? some by enemies, some by the media. mr. romney: the personal finances are not associate with response billy and government i'm not sure those finances deserve a lot of attention. in the case of the clintons there's were linked with her service as the secretary of state. the idea that you are taking in millions and millions of dollars from foreign entities at the same time you are secretary of state prisons a problem. mark: i had a funny feeling. you know the way the press works . some of the things they are charged with aren't true. do you have any personal sympathy for them in terms of what they a
mr. romney: in e-mail. i will be at walker point this summer and we will have lunch together with jeff and the family. mark: one question about the democratic side. the clintons are frustrated. the coverage of their finances is unfair and inaccurate. you dealt with a lot of scrutiny of your personal finances. without getting in the particulars do you have any empathy for them in terms of the unrelenting scrutiny? some by enemies, some by the media. mr. romney: the personal finances are not...
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mitt romney. mr. romney has, in fact, argued repeatedly that he supported a national health care plan based on what he did in massachusetts, including, specifically, the individual mandate that he now decries. he may find this politically inconvenient now, but that is the truth, and it's easily accessible by anybody with the google. and he still lies about it, all of the time, over and over again. this is not a normal amount of politician lying. mr. rom lies about himself, he lies about the president, he lies about policy. he lies about everything. it is beyond a normal amount of politician lying. >> while we've got $15 trillion of debt, he's said, look, i'm going to put another $1 trillion of debt for obama care. >> that is mitt romney lying. every congressional estimate shows that the president's health reform law actually cuts the definite by hundreds of billions of dollars. now, you cannot like it for other reasons, but mr. romney says all the time that health reform adds to the deficit when in on
mitt romney. mr. romney has, in fact, argued repeatedly that he supported a national health care plan based on what he did in massachusetts, including, specifically, the individual mandate that he now decries. he may find this politically inconvenient now, but that is the truth, and it's easily accessible by anybody with the google. and he still lies about it, all of the time, over and over again. this is not a normal amount of politician lying. mr. rom lies about himself, he lies about the...
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mr. romney is winning with older voters. so if you are a political technician and trying to win the state of florida for your candidate, this polling pattern is not just an interesting fact about how this state is likely to vote. what you are looking at right there is actionable intelligence. what political messaging is going to be most effective for winning this state given these age-specific numbers. again, you do not have to guess. it's an empirical question with an empirical answer. it is in the numbers. look from that same fox news poll. regardless of how you might vote, which presidential candidate do you prust to do a better job on protecting medicare? look at the margin. president obama winning that question in florida by a 13-point margin. so the people who want barack obama to win florida are pressing that advantage right now and the people who want mitt romney to win florida are trying to eliminate the president's advantage on that right now and they are both doing it in an intensely targeted way with this crucial
mr. romney is winning with older voters. so if you are a political technician and trying to win the state of florida for your candidate, this polling pattern is not just an interesting fact about how this state is likely to vote. what you are looking at right there is actionable intelligence. what political messaging is going to be most effective for winning this state given these age-specific numbers. again, you do not have to guess. it's an empirical question with an empirical answer. it is...
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the very sources of mr. romney's income. the president speaking just a few hours ago explained why mr. romney needs to disclose more. >> the american people have assumed that if you want to be president of the united states, that your life's an open book when it comes to things like your finances. it's what the american people expect. >> you see, mr. romney, i
the very sources of mr. romney's income. the president speaking just a few hours ago explained why mr. romney needs to disclose more. >> the american people have assumed that if you want to be president of the united states, that your life's an open book when it comes to things like your finances. it's what the american people expect. >> you see, mr. romney, i
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mr. romney told that same story about meeting mr. doherty yesterday while campaigning in iowa. >> he skied a lot, he skied in some of the places i had. we had a lot of things in common. he told me that he keeps going back to the middle east. he cares very deeply about the people there. you can imagine how i felt when i found out that he was one of the two former navy s.e.a.l.s killed in benghazi on september 11th. and it -- it touched me, obviously, as i recognized this young man that i thought was so impressive. he -- according to the reports on cnn international that i read, he was actually in a different building, in an annex, a safe place, somewhere else across town when he and his colleagues there heard that the consulate was around attack. and they went there. they didn't hunker down where they were in safety. they rushed there to go help. this is the american way. we go where there's trouble. we go where we're needed. and right now we're needed. right now the american people need us. >> politicians repeat the same stories on t
mr. romney told that same story about meeting mr. doherty yesterday while campaigning in iowa. >> he skied a lot, he skied in some of the places i had. we had a lot of things in common. he told me that he keeps going back to the middle east. he cares very deeply about the people there. you can imagine how i felt when i found out that he was one of the two former navy s.e.a.l.s killed in benghazi on september 11th. and it -- it touched me, obviously, as i recognized this young man that i...
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romney had declared his utah home his primary residence, well, mr. romney said that must have been a mistake on the reporter's part. he told the massachusetts state ballot commission, quote, i have met with that reporter at least 100 times over the last three years and i don't recall a specific conversation about my residence in utah. that reporter got a subpoena to appear in massachusetts and testify as to whether or not mr. romney told her that, and the paper resisted that subpoena. in terms of the tax break that mr. romney got on his utah house for being a full-time resident of utah, he blamed a clerk in the tax assessor's office in utah saying he had never asked for that tax break. somebody just accidentally gave it to him and accidentally saved him $54,000. the county assesser ended up taking the heat for it, although she also said at the same time such an error had never occurred before in her 12 years in office. what about all those tax returns for those multiple years that mr. romney signed saying he wasn't a massachusetts resident? can't bla
romney had declared his utah home his primary residence, well, mr. romney said that must have been a mistake on the reporter's part. he told the massachusetts state ballot commission, quote, i have met with that reporter at least 100 times over the last three years and i don't recall a specific conversation about my residence in utah. that reporter got a subpoena to appear in massachusetts and testify as to whether or not mr. romney told her that, and the paper resisted that subpoena. in terms...
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mr. romney at 49% of the vote. ron paul and newt gingrich both distant third and fourth in single digits right now. that's less than half it have vote in but enough to project mr. romney as the winner. we heard mr. romney speaking high pressu. here is rick santorum addressing his supporters in pennsylvania. this is live. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. it is great to be back in pennsylvania. thank you for joining us. let me thank all of you for being here. i know they're not going to be hearing me but i feel so bad, we have about 1000, 1500 people that couldn't get in here. we were just overwhelmed by the response. i feel welcome back home to pennsylvania. thank you very much. first, i want to congratulate governor romney. i gave him call earlier and congratulated him him on winning the state of illinois. i also want to stay i want to thank all the ol fofolks in ill. we're going to win down state. we're going to win central illinois. we're going to win western illinois. we won the area that republicans and cons
mr. romney at 49% of the vote. ron paul and newt gingrich both distant third and fourth in single digits right now. that's less than half it have vote in but enough to project mr. romney as the winner. we heard mr. romney speaking high pressu. here is rick santorum addressing his supporters in pennsylvania. this is live. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. it is great to be back in pennsylvania. thank you for joining us. let me thank all of you for being here. i know they're not going to...
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on is this, one is the economic plan that mr. romney is proposing. brand new analysis out that does show consistent analysis all along the shows what mr. romney is offering, which is what congressional republicans are offering as well, is in effect a package of huge economic benefits for the wealthiest americans, one that would make things harder economically for the vast majority of people, for the middle class. that sort of tax plan, that sort of an anti-populist economic plan that is bad for most people but good for the rich people, that could be a political liability even in the best of times, but in bad economic times when the only people doing well are the already wealthy, being able to describe a candidate's tax plan like that is essentially a political shiv you can use against them. the twist to that knife is the personal part of it. this is to new development in the campaign. beyond the question of whether mr. romney's proposals will help wealthy people like him essentially as a class, there is also now the specific personal question of how
on is this, one is the economic plan that mr. romney is proposing. brand new analysis out that does show consistent analysis all along the shows what mr. romney is offering, which is what congressional republicans are offering as well, is in effect a package of huge economic benefits for the wealthiest americans, one that would make things harder economically for the vast majority of people, for the middle class. that sort of tax plan, that sort of an anti-populist economic plan that is bad for...